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New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.

Pain has long been subjectively measured, leading to frustrations for patients and doctors alike. Identifying neural biomarkers of pain could improve diagnosis and lead to better treatments of chronic pain conditions.

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The COVID pandemic isn't the only threat; the ableist media is another pandemic putting everyone's lives in danger.

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Scientists have linked certain changes in the retina to mild cognitive impairment—which may someday help identify the early signs of dementia.

The FDA approved Pfizer's newest drug on the migraine market, Zavzpret (zavegepant), the first and only migraine treatment offered in a nasal spray.

Scientists are starting to detect clots in long COVID patients’ smallest blood vessels—which might help explain the condition’s debilitating symptoms.

Nearly 40 percent of long COVID patients suffer from the disorienting condition. Destroyed connections between brain cells may be to blame.

Brain fog, which includes impaired attention, concentration, memory and processing speed, can be debilitating.

Long Covid brought attention to M.E./C.F.S., a long-ignored illness whose sufferers are too sick to accelerate research by making trouble the way AIDS activists once did.

Lauren Nichols, a 34-year-old logistics expert for the U.S. Department of Transportation in Boston, has been suffering from impaired thinking and focus, fatigue, seizures, headache and pain since her COVID-19 infection in the spring of 2020.

These images show the bacterial load on a coated and uncoated computer keyboard, cell phone and cutting board with raw chicken. Image credit: Anish Tuteja There may soon be a new weapon in our centuries-old battle against germs: the first durable coating that can quickly kill bacteria and viruses

A new class of medicines has the potential to permanently change the way we think about obesity.

Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days reversed aging-related declines in working and long-term memory, scientists report in a new study.

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From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries in Africa pursued public-health measures more aggressively than the U.S. and Europe did.

Autism doesn’t just affect boys and men, but research on the condition still predominantly focuses on them. Some scientists are finally beginning to include women and nonbinary people in their studies.

Centuries of female exclusion has meant women’s diseases are often missed, misdiagnosed or remain a total mystery

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Migraines are a common neurologic condition, but it’s estimated that in the US only about a quarter of adults with migraine are able to get an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Pa...

Activating CGRP receptors generates pain signals within Schwann cells, but blocking CGRP actions inside Schwann cells offers potential new treatments for migraine pain

Thoracic outlet syndrome causes pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness down the arm. Thankfully, exercise can alleviate these symptoms.

This female physician has seen too many women frustrated in their efforts to attain wellness. Her prescription for a remedy: Women must speak up.

The overall pattern is familiar, but a fresh perspective on how to interpret cases, hospitalizations and deaths is necessary as Omicron tears through the country.